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Robert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834), was an Anglo-Scottish [2] [3] Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature".
Robert Morrison (1782–1834) who went to China in 1807; John Smith (1790–1824) was a LMS missionary whose experiences in the West Indies, beginning in 1817, attracted the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.
Robert Morrison (1782-1834) is credited with several historical firsts in addition to the first bidirectional Chinese and English dictionary. He was the first Protestant missionary in China, started the first Chinese-language periodical in 1815, [5] collaborated with William Milne to write the first translation of the Bible into Chinese in 1823, helped to found the English-language The Canton ...
Robert Morrison (missionary) (1782–1834), Protestant missionary; Robert Morrison (Phi Delta Theta) (1822–1902), one of the founders of Phi Delta Theta; Bob Morrison (songwriter) (born 1942), American country songwriter; Rob Morrison (journalist), American television journalist and news anchor; Robert Morrison (artist) (1941-2018), American ...
This is list of scholarly, missionary and other works by Robert Morrison (missionary): Robert Morrison (1812). Horae Sinicae: Translations from the Popular Literature of the Chinese. London. Robert Morrison (1813). Hsin i Chao Shu; Robert Morrison (1815). Translations from the Original Chinese, with Notes. Canton. Robert Morrison (1815). A ...
A month later, Morrison appointed him as a lay evangelist for the London Missionary Society [10] [1] [n 2] and in 1827 ordained him as a full minister, the first native Chinese to do so. [10] He preached at hospitals and chapels and, after writing his own tracts, thought to distribute Christian literature to the scholars gathered for the ...
Robert Morrison, D.D. (March 15, 1822 – July 27, 1902) was an American Presbyterian minister, educator, and editor who was the principal founder of the Phi Delta Theta international college fraternity, suggesting the fraternity's creation and co-authoring the fraternity document known as The Bond.
The purchase of the burial ground was prompted by the death of Mary Morrison, wife of Robert Morrison, missionary and translator employed by the East India Company. Prior to this, the Portuguese authorities had only allowed Roman Catholic burials in the colony.